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Films and Exhibitions

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Opening Exhibition of works by Emily Kngwarreye in Tokyo.

L-R Adjunct Professor Margo Neale, Fred Torres DACOU Aboriginal Gallery, Adelaide, Craddock Morton, Director National Museum of Australia, in front of painting loaned by Sir Elton John, `My Country'.

Margo Neale, an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University, curated the acclaimed exhibition that opened at the National Museum of Art, Osaka on the 25 th February. It is the largest exhibition of a single Australian artist ever staged overseas. Entitled Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye , it is a collaboration between the National Museum of Australia and the National Museum of Art, Osaka with Yomiuri Shimbun. It was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan and the Australian Embassy Tokyo, attracting sponsorship from a range of Australian and Japanese companies and major organisations. The Exhibition, which features an amazing diversity and scale of Kngwarreye's work, travels to Tokyo May 28-July 2008, then to the National Museum of Australia. This project provides a focus study for a major ARC grant being run out of ACIH, Unsettling Histories: Indigenous Modes of Historical Practice . (Ann McGrath, Margo Neale and Frances Peters-Little)

Ann McGrath, Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History in the History Program, RSSS, attended the official opening in Osaka. Arts afficianados including Janet Holmes a Court, John McDonald, Judy Behan and Christopher Hodge showered praise on the conceptual framework and visual excitement of the show and its hang. The Australian Ambassador, Murray McLean and Craddock Morton were extremely enthusiastic. A catalogue in English and Japanese was also published. ACIH Collaborator Ronin Films is making a documentary of the story behind the Exhibition.

Film - A Frontier Conversation- 2006 Preselected in the top ten documentaries by the Australian Teachers of Media Awards (ATOM) A documentary following a fascinating journey through the Top End of Australia exploring what history means to traditional landowners. This project is a collaboration between Indigenous and white historians from Australia and North America. View TRAILER here (Quicktime movie of 11mb in size) Available through Ronin Films at http://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/1871945/0/2424720609.html

Film - Our Community - 2006 Winner - Best Documentary short film 2006, Dreamspeakers Film Festival, Canada Runnerup - Capital Region Best Short Film Category, Snowyfest International Film Festival, Thredbo, 16-18 June 2006. An exploration of the concept of 'community' focussing on the communities of Brewarrina, Walgett, Lightning Ridge and Angledool. Available from Ronin Films at http://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/2422036596.htm

Exhibition - Our Community 2005 A photographic exhibition focusing on diversity and community at Brewarrina, Walgett, Lightning Ridge and Angledool, National Museum of Australia, mid 2005. Link to http://acih/research/projects.php for a viewing of the photographs.